fs.lstatSync doesn't handle specific Windows REPARSE POINTS

[paulbouwer]

• OS version and name: Windows 10 (16179)
• gaze version: 1.1.2

Referenced issues:

• hyper #1776 - Gaze is adding all folders in HOME to watch list
• gaze #214 - Gaze.prototype._addToWatched repeating readDir of same directory on each call

Issue

After experiencing the following issue in hyper which uses gaze, I noticed that all sub-folders in my HOME were being scanned instead of just the HOME/.hyper.js file that hyper had configured gaze to watch.

It also appears that in my case, the OneDrive folder has a specific type of reparse point that fs.lstatSync cannot handle. I ran a simple app against my home folder and fs.lstatSync will handle all other junctions in my HOME, just not the folders added by OneDrive.

Would it make sense to alter:

gaze.js - line 301-303

301      if (fs.lstatSync(dirfile).isDirectory()) {
302        helper.objectPush(this._watched, dirname, dirfile + path.sep);
303      }

to the following:

301      try {
302        if (fs.lstatSync(dirfile).isDirectory()) {
303          helper.objectPush(this._watched, dirname, dirfile + path.sep);
304        }
305      } catch (e) { }

or only catch the error if e.code === "EINVAL". At least until this can be resolved upstream in the node repo for fs.lstatSync.